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Matthew Gammans

@mattgammans

Economist. Interested in agriculture, markets, and measuring stuff.

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(I think economists could benefit generally from thinking more about units! In physics EVERYTHING is about unit analysis, which gave me helpful intuition) (I've been trying to tell people about this problem for years, though I've used the arcsinh too so I'm totally a hypocrite)

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A very brief piece on short- and longer-term drought management strategies, with Alan Ker and Molly Sears (Molly Sears) canr.msu.edu/news/drought-r…

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Emmanuel gives a nice overview of this paper, out this week in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. I think we're all starting to understand how important characterizing response heterogeneity is for climate impacts. This paper has a few caveats and suggestions along those lines.